Theorizing Transmediality in its Transnational Contexts (NeMLA)

Leonardo Nole Announcement
Location
United States
Subject Fields
Film and Film History, Humanities, Literature, Popular Culture Studies, Cultural History / Studies

Theorizing Transmediality in its Transnational Contexts

Panel Co-Directors: Leonardo Nole’ and Joseph Boisvere (Graduate Center, CUNY)

The study of literature has always relied upon the traversal of borders of various kinds, both inter and intra nationally. This panel will engage with issues of literary study across geographical and cultural borders as well as the boundaries between literary and audio-visual media in the contemporary digital age. As the field of screen studies has been informed by theoretical frameworks originating in the field of literary studies, we ask how the interpretation of literary texts is informed by disciplines that are only now, in the digital age, being born. As digital technologies intensify movement of media across traditional notions of borders between various communities, how can we model the traversal of literary analysis across not only such borders but the bounds of medium? In the digital age of increasing access to literary and audio/visual materials, how is transmediality related to transnational and transcultural transposition? We welcome papers that discuss the engagement with texts both on the page and on the screen from a theoretical or hermeneutical perspective as well as papers that apply this logic to specific case studies.

Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2019.

250-word abstracts must be submitted online through the NeMLA website at https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/18091 [cfplist.com], before September 30, 2019. Individual presentations should not be longer than 7-8 minutes, in order to have enough time for the discussion.

Contact Information

Leonardo Nolé - lnole@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Joseph Boisvere - jboisvere@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Contact Email
lnole@gradcenter.cuny.edu